GOLD HILL NEW S.
LA I tH N tW S.
CALLED
TO
ORDER.
O p e n in g Se««lo»i o f lle p u b lle n n N a t io n a l
HE STORMING I
t ill
('U llV V ltllu lle
Two thousand stand of arm» have
keen given up hv the Boer« at Pretoria.
r v s ilin u
BTKRT IA T IH D A I.
Philadelphia. Jane 21.—Chairman
llanua, with a rabbit’s (out suspended
The battle-ship Oregon and 5,000
Chinese Forts Begin the VZcr from a minature of McKinley iu the Russian Forces Before the
GOLD HILL ................ . . . ORE.iOW. Americau troop* will go to Taka at
lapel of hi* coat, surveyed nn imposing
Cates of Pekin.
once.
With the World.
spectacle wheu he called the 12th Rig
Ameri.'an ship* took no part in the
pnhlicau National convention to order
bombardment aud seisure of the Chi
in the exposition building at 12:35 1*. A T T A C K U P O N T H E L E G A T IO N S
nese forts at Taku.
W ERE FO R C ED T O SURREN D ER
M . today.
The valleys below him
A special session of congress may l»e
were crowded with the 1.800 delegates
called. The situation iu the far East
l l 1« H u m o re d T h « l A l l I I I « F o r e ig n e r «
F o r t lA r a t lo u a a l T a k u O p e n e d I l i a C a n and alternate* end stretching away to
f o m p r r h e n t l t e R e v l m o f t h e I m p o r t seem* to demand it.
in I h e C a p it a l H a r a H e « " M a a a a e re d
a l e ! b y I h e l i n i e r « o f I b a K u ip re « « • the four corners of the immense hall
a n t lla p ] w * iiiiic * o f t h e P a s t W e e k
were
end
less
vistas
of
people
rising
in
- J n p o n M o b ilis in g SB,OOH T ro o p « .
Three of the fort* at Taku were com
M aw ta H a a d « o t F o w e re .
C o lle t l F r o m t h e T e le g r a p h C o lu m n « .
terraced seats to the walla. He looked
pletely destroyed by the liomhardinent
into the faces of fully 16,000 men and
from foreign ships, and the British vea-
Loudon, June 21.—The Russian re
London, June 20.—China declare«, women. Opposite, in a broad gallery,
selscapiured
four
Chinese
torpedo
boat*.
A second-clans naval station w ill be
wai against the world when the Take were masned a hundred musicians, lieving force arrived outside of Pekin
established at San Diego, Cal.
Mrs. Beveridge, wife of United States forts opened fire upon the .nternational
their leader a mere pigamy in the dis thia mnruiug, says the Shanghai corre
spondent of the Daly Kzpress, ami im
Churches an«l residence« of foreigner« Seuatoi Beveridge, of Indiana, died in fieet. The accounts of what to* k plaos tance.
a sanitarium at Dansville, N. Y„ ol | are still unsatisfactory. the oest semi
in Tien Tsin hate been burned.
The platform on which he stood mediately la-gau to attack the city M l
heart failure. Sli*. had been ill several official information being the dispatch jutted out like a huge rock into an two sides, employing numerous artil
An extra session of congress mar be
mouths.
received at Berlin from Che Fuo. A ocean of humanity.
Below him and lery. The force apparently arrived lit
convened owing to the Chinese war.
business portion of the press dispatch from Che Fuo, dated Hanging the stage, was an emhaukment the nick of time, for the Chinese assert
Half
of
the
China will have a heavy bill of dam
thronged with the representatives of that the attack upon the legal Iona had
ages to pay for the Boxer outrages city of Blooinmgton. III., including yesterday afternoon, says:
five squares of the finest business blocks
"The
forts
on
both
sides
of
Taku
aw
the press of the country. Above was a been succeaaiully renewed. Ihe night
when order is again restored.
of the city and the court house, were now occupied. The Chinese o,#ue<l riot of flags, bunting, eagles, shields, of June 16 the Chinese troops, under
Fire destroyed the Home for the destroyed by fire, with losses estimated fire unexpectedly. The casualties tc the whole scheme of the elaborate dec Generals Tu Full Kluug and Tung
Friendless children at Leadville, Colo., at $1,000,000.
the mixed force were as fo'lows:
oration culiuiualing in a bnge portrait Ching. attacked the legation» and ret
causing the death of four of the inmates.
“ Killed — British, one; German of McKinley nestling in the graceful on fire five European bulldinga. Noth
Negotiations for a commercial treaty
Francis of Orleans, Prince of Join- with France have been satisfactorily three; Russian, one, and French one. folds of the American tlag. A loot him ing definite is knowu as to the result,
“ Wounded— British four; German, were the working leader* of his |<arty, except that the Chinese were disap
ville, son of the late Louis Philippe, concluded by the Brazilian minister oi
king of the French, is dead of pneu foreign affairs at Rio Janeiro. France seven; Russian, 45, an-1 Freuch, one. and behiud, Minong the dignitaries and pointed, although other reports, utterly
“ Chinese torpedo boats were seized.” honored guests of the convention, were discredited by foreigners here, are that
monia, aged 82 years.
w ill grant a reduction of 20 per cent
The
Shanghai correspondent of tn* white faced men who had lieen pr-sent the Chiueae, infuriated by the destruc
Three persons were killed and 18 on the duty on Brazilian coffee.
Daily Mail telegraphing yesterday says: at the party’s birth in this city, almost tion of Taku, have since massacre^ all
seriously injuted by a collision between
The Pacific Oil Works Company was
the foreigner* iu Pekin.
* •'Hie forts liegan firing in obedience half a century ago.
an express train and a train tilled with incorporated at Tacoma. Wash., with
A modified veraion of the minors re
to
the
on
1
ere
from
Pekin,
conveyed
is
,
It
was
not
a
riotous
convention.
race-goers near London, England.
a capital of $250,000, to bore for oil in the personal edict of the empress dow There were no wild outbursts of en ceived at Berliu ia that the French a*
G. P. Ruuimelin, a well-known a gulcb, plmost in the heart of the ager, by advice of Kang Yi (president thusiasm, no frenzied partisans of rival well as the German minister has been
The English at Shanghai
merchant of Portland, Or., was mur city. Sample oil from outcropping in of the minister of war.) Several war candidates, no entrance of delegations killed.
Work will lie ships were struck by shells from 12- with lainners to set the multitudes to think that the Chinese had foreign ad
dered in New York city, presumably dicate rich deposit.
for the purpose of roblierv. His throat prosecuted at once.
inch gnn« of the forts. The heavy cheering, no skirmishing aud clashing vice in organizing the defense tat Taku,
was cut from ear to ear.
A dispatch from Lord Roberts sent Russian losses were -Ine to the blowing of candidate managers over rules of because of tbe precision with which
A native rising has occurred in the from Pretoria, Juno 16, gives an official np of the magazines of Mandshur.
procedure and contesting delegations. their attack was delivered. Tbe wire*
“ Four hundred Chinese are reported The chieftain in the coming battle had connecting with the harbor mines were
Gambia colony, West Africa, and two version of an attack on a British post
British commissioners and six mem tiers at Zand river. June 16, by 800 Boers, killed. The Chinese, who were re already been selected by the unanimous i cut by the boats of the warships the
of the police have been killed at Sann- with three guns. It says that General treating, fell into the hands of the Rns voice of the Republicans of the oouu- night before the boinlatrdmeut. It is
kandi, on the south banks of Gambia Knox, with a mixed force, drove off the sian land force.”
try. The man who had stood at the now reported at Shanghai that it waa
Boers,
who
left
four
dead
and
four
pris
The Daily News has the following helm of the ship of state for four, years on board the Russian cruiser Korietz.
river, by Mandingoes. The party had
gone to Sannkanndi to settle a question oners on the field. The British loss from Che Foo:
a as their unbroken choice. The plat aud not the Maodsohur, that Ihe explo
was
Major
Seymour
and
two
men
killed
ot local administration, when the Man-
“ Two of the foits were blown up. form was the record of his administra sion occurred, killing aud wounding
The 32 warships at Taku aggregateli tion. The only question remaining for j more than 50. It is reportod that no
dingoes suddenly attacked and mur and nine wounded.
fewer than 700 Chinese were killed iu
dered thorn.
The French government will have 200.000 tons, and carried more thac the convention to decide was the vice
the forts.
presidency,
aud
it
was
not
a
sufficient
The Mexican government, following 4,200 troops at Taku when the rein 300 guns.”
The Shanghai correspondent of the
bone
of
contention
to
produce
the
tu
forcements
just
ordered
have
arrived,
the example set bj- Texas, has quaran
Daily
Express says he is officially in
T
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F
T
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L
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multuous scene which nsnally attends
tined against San Francisco, and until there. They w ill reach Taku before
formed that Japan is mobilizing 25,000
the
assembly
of
a
National
convention.
|
notice to the contrary is given, all per June 30. The dispatch of a crnisei
t h e J o u r n e y F r o m P o r t la n d
The convention today was a dignified men for immediate transport.
sons who have been in San Francisco division, which was decided niton, A c c o u n t o f to
The (Kritish' cruiser Undaunted ar
D u tc h H a r b o r .
gathering
of the representatives of the
within a period of 15 days will not be will give France a strong naval force,
rived
at Shanghai yesterday, cleared for
Dutch Harlior, June 7.—Thus fai Republican party, to ratify formally
allowed to pass the border until they consisting of seven modern cruisers—
action *nd took up a position command
the
wishes
of
the
millions
whose
has
the
good
ship
Elder,
with
her
en-
have remained in quarantine for a suf three of the first-class and four of the
ing the Chinese forts. There are three
ficient length of time to make up the second class— four gunboats and a dis thnsistio collection of goldseekers, pro authority they held. While the crowds Chinese cruisers in the harbor.
The
and
delegates
were
funnelling
into
the
grossed
on
her
way
to
the
land
ol
15 days.
The Mexican quarantine patch boat.
new Chinese cruiser Ilai Haug, built
hall
Eiefore
the
hoar
for
calling
the
con
promise.
Under
lair
auspices
has
th*
relates to passengers only. The border
Princess Radizwill, of Russia, was
journey been thus far, and the light ol vention to ordet had arrived, there were by the Armstrongs, has lieen taken into
authorities have the matter in band.
roblied of jewelry worth £10,000 at her
boj-e kindles each eye has the future it no wild greetings of party leaders. A custody at Tskti by the British and
Journal specials from towns in South hotel in London, June 20. Among the contemplated.
Many have suffered scattering applause met Mr. Hanna as Russians.
At Yumnan Fu, where the risiug has
west Nebraska tell of violent rain and jewels was her historic rope of 150 from the trials which the capricious he made hie way to the stage. General
wind storms with some hail. At Syra l>earls, each weighing 22 grains, and a mood of “ Old Briny” has inflicted on Grosvenor, Senator Lodge. Senator For- ' been gathering force for several days,
cuse, 5 S inches of rain has fallen in bracelet of emeralds, the gift of the them, bnt not severely; for, to givt aker, ex-Senator (¿uav and a few others 680 Christians have lieen attacked at
24 hours. Damage to crops is heavy. Ameer of Afghanistan. The princess Old Briny credit, thus far he has been aroused a fluttering of handkerchiefs the French mission settlement, many
The Little Nehama valley is one vast was about to start to Paris, but while very lenient with ns. Our time hat and a round of hand-clapping, bnt inen being put to death. The Freuch con
lake, and many families have been at luncheon she left the jewels in their lieen passed in visiting the sick and of national reputation, whose fame has sol and three missioAtries are still iu
compelled to abandon their homes. cases, locked in her wardrobe. On needy, who, like the poor, are alwayt spread away from onr shores across prison.
The disorderly elements have secured
Freight trains on the Burlington have her return she found them missing. ; in evidence on a sea trip, and vanoin both oceans, («ntered without producing
been abandoned.
Weeping Water All the efforts of the Scotland Yard de- , social diversions, consisting of enter a ripple. Perhaps most of them were the upper hand at Wa Kai aud< ‘zechuau,
creek, at Weeping Water, Cass county, tectives have thus far proved unavail tainments in the afternoon and song not reengnzed.
It seemed tame. where the native Christians have boots
is the highest known for 10 years and | ing. Fortunately most of her diamonds services in the evening. Our worthy There was only that indescribable buzz in as-aired. A thousand Boxers have
were iu a safe at Coutt’s bank.
Missouri Pacific trains are delayed.
leader has lieen Judge Galbraith, and of my raids of voices which liel mgs to a gathered on the outskirts of Tien Tsin.
Thre Shanghai corres|*iudeut of the
Chinese forts at Takn tired on foreign to him we are deeply indebted for hit National convention as the humming of
British marines killed and wounded
Daily News, telegraphing yesterday,
vessels,
but
were
soon
forced
to
sur
bees
belongs
to
a
field
of
clover
in
many
kindnesses
in
helping
out
the
40 Boxers.
says:
programme. We are also honored by summer.
Robeits’ line of communication is render.
“The Chinese officials here assert
Russia has demanded of China an in having in onr midst a poet, John E. M.
B L O O M IN G T O N F IR E .
again open.
that they have news from Pekin up to
Shea,
who
has
been
inspired
to
writ*
demnity of 50,000.000 taels for the
General Grant reports the capture of damage done t) the railroad from Tien a poem aboard, entitled, “The Yoyagt E i t l m a t r d T h a t t h e I.« « « M a y K e a r h June 17. The situation was then very
serious.
Beyond that they claim to
San Mignel, a rebel stronghold.
of the Elder.” Among the faces fa
T w o M i ll i o n D o lla r « .
Tsin to Pekin.
hate
received
nothing, hut they deny
miliar to Portland people are: W. T.
Bloomington, 111., June 21.— Half of
Seven persons were drowned by the
John Vass, one of the best-known Hame, W. 8. Chapman. Captain Wat- the business section of Bloomington, that dispatches have lieen withheld.
opsetting of a boat on Lake Bennett, mining experts on the Pacific Coast,
■‘Although I am not willing to adopt
bob , George W. Hazen, Joe Ben Lane, including five squares of the finest bnsi- |
Alaska.
died of consumption at Baker City, Silvey Stnait, J. D. McKinnon, Cap ness blocks of the citv and the court the alarmist reports, my impression,
Four people were killed by the de Or., aged 46 years.
tain Lyons. We have bnt few ladies bouse, erected at a cost of $4 1 HI, (MX) was gathered from the consuls and Chine-o
struction of a large cooperage plant in
Trouble is rife in the northern part aboard. Among them are Mrs. Gal destroyed by fire this morning.
The authorities, is that the worst is to bo
Brooklyn.
of the Republic of San Doimngo. Many braith, Mrs. Hume, Mrs. Tuttle, Mrs. loss is variously estimated at from feared in Pekin. Admiral Seymour'»
Robert’s forces had a hard battle arrests have lieen made, includng lead Wilson and Miss Jewell.
$1,500,000 to $2,000,000. One death column is now in the middle of an and
wtih General Botha, bnt did not defeat ers of the former government party.
Captain Randall is quite |-opnlar, also resulted from the fire.
Roliert plain, with no food and no good water,
and surrounded by hostile fqyces.”
the Boer leader.
In consequence of the gravity of the and has won much praise by his gen Schmitt, 19 yearr old, died from the
A dispatch from Shanghai announce»
tlemanly
and
considerate
deportment.
shock occasioned by the noise of the
Pennsylvanians will pash the candi situation in China, England has order
dacy of former governor Pattison for ed the Seventh Bengal infantry at Mr. Hey wood, the purser, and Mr. explosion of dynamite, which was used that the United States trHiisport
Thomas, with tru<i|ie for Manila, wa»
the vice-presidency.
Simla, India, to proceed to Hong Kong. Owens, the freight clerk, also deserve by the firemen in blowing np buildings diverted to Nagasaki and has arrived at
special
mention
for
their
courtesies.
to
stay
the
progress
of
the
flames.
The money appropriated by congress
J. C. Pardee, aged 36 years, a brake-
The tire department was badly han Takn with 1,200 men.
for nse at the month of the Colombia man on the Southern Pacific train, who As the days go by and the trials of sea
sickness
are
over,
the
jollity
at
meal»
dicapped
by an almost total failure of
will be used at once.
lives in Ashland, Or., was killed at increases, revealing many original char the watei supply, and it was not nntil
K i l l e d In » T r a i n W r e c k .
Two persons were drowned at South Dunsmuir, Cal., by bein run over by a acters, and there is much by-play ol late this morning, when the buildings
Lebanon, Ky., June 21 —Two men
Bend, Ind., by the capsizing of a boat train.
talk.
At our entertainments, too, had been blown np with dynamite, that were killed and five seriously injured
on the river, at that place.
Information from Pekin, brought to much of originality is brought out in tbe flames were finally gotten under in a wreck this afternoon on the Louis-
ville & Nashville Railroad at Cavalry,
Methuen and Kitchener, in an en Shanghai by refugees, says that the the remarks made, creating no little control.
city
is
in
a
state
of
panic.
Incendiary
,
six
miles from Lebanon.
The killed
merriment. And so, day by day, in
The tire started in the Model lanndry
gagement with Dewet’s troops, scat
tires are of nightly occurrence, aud onr lonely floating home on the track on Monroe street, in tbe block east of an: George Mullins, of Mouut Vern
tered the Boers in all directions.
scores of outrages are reported. Wo
on, and J. H. Houston, of l ’inehill.
Terry McGovern, champion light men and children from Tien Tsin are i less ocean, we have our simple pleas the court bouse. A strong wind was both bridge carpenters.
Thirteen
nres,
each
hoping
in
his
heart,
that
blowing
at
the
time
and
before
the
tire
weight of the world, k n if e d out Tom pouring into Shanghai.
The chief | Dame Fortune may smile upon his ven department arrived, the tire spread to bridge carpenters were at work on tin-
White in three rounds at New York danger there is the fact that the native j
tnre and that he may return to hi» tbe fonr-story brick building occupied bridge that crosses Rolling Fork River.
City.
town, behind the European settlement, friends in dear old Portland a success- by B. S. Green & Co., and thence The passenger train was iu the center
New York capitalists have secured is full of bad characters, whose atti fnl and happy inan.
steadily eastward. In an hour the en of the first 100-foot span when the
concessions from the government of tude is liecoining every day more Inso
tire block, except the postoffice build bridge gave way and precipitated
Honduras to bnild a railroad in that lent and menacing.
C o lu m b ia n W a r .
ing, which was saved by hard work, almost the entire train ¡to the bed of
country.
•
At Needles, Cal., the federal quaran
Kingston, Jamaica, June 20.—Pas was in mins. In this block was the the river. The last coach, containing
Wood workers of Chicago threaten to tine inspector has lieen prevented from sengers who arrived from Panama od old Dnrley theater, which was lieing 20 passengers, was left hanging over
go out on July 1, unless their wages molesting passengers on Santa Fe trains board the British steamer Don, from remodeled. The Are worked westward the abutment, and was not seriously
are increased. The strike will involve I at the state line and his authority is Colon, bring details of a battle which across to Greiehem’a seven-story build damaged until after its occupants were
ignorned by the railroad officials. Or was fought June 13 and 14 on Bejuca ing, at tbe corner of Main and Jefferson taken out.
8,000 workmen.
Two city detectives of Kansas City ders have lieen issued to all conductors plain and Anton hill, between govern streets, and soon that entire block was
D o in g to F ig h t A f r ic a n N a t iv e * .
From there the tire
undertook to stop a street fight between to take up the pass of the inspector, ment forces composed of three battal also in flames.
Kingston, Jamaica, June 21.—The
a crowd of negro men and women and Mr. Jenkins, if presented, and collect ions and numbering about 1,500 men, spread to the oonrt honse and thence to West Indian regiment today received
as a result a man and a woman were his fare. Jenkins hag wired to Surgeon and a force of revolutionists under Gen adjacent blocks.
orders from the war office to hold itself
Kenyoun for instructions. The con- eral Belasarobe Parras. It is asserted
In the meantime aid bad been ram- i in readiness to proceed to Gambia.
killed.
luctors have also been oriered to give that 400 soldiers ami 85 officers of the moned from Peoria and Springfield and Western Africa, to fight the Sofas.
News has been received in New York
the
inspector no information,
government force were killed and that with the aselstace of fire apparatus Deinarnra has offered 400 volunteer»
of the murder of Dr. Edna G. Terry,
the forces of the government army from these cities, the fire was gradual and a Maxim gun for service aguiust
S.
J.
McGowan,
superintendent
of
in charge of the station of the Metho
dist Episcopal Woman’s Foreign Mis the Phoenix, Ariz., Indian Industrial were divided. The passengers of the ly brought under the control to the the Ashantees. About 775 men of the
sionary Society at Tsnng Hua, China. School, having been directed to inves- . Don farther assert that General Parras west. To the east it was necessary to Kingston infantry militia volbuteered
tigate the condition of the Pima In addressed a letter to General Campos, nse dynamite to destroy several build« for the same service yesterday.
Thomas Lewis, a miner of Tncson,
dians on their reservation on the Gila the governor of Panama, demanding ings in the path of the flames before
Ariz., has been arrested on a charge of
H e r k h n m W a n t * K e n o n iln n t ln n .
river, 30 miles from Phoenix, who the surrender of the city, adding thal the tire was stopped in that direction.
setting fire to the Catelina forests,
Frankfort, Ky., Jin e 21.—Governor
were reported to be suffering from otherwise the place would be taken by
where 6,000,000 feet of timlier were
Madison, Wis., June 21.—Tbe entire Beckham, the youngest governor this
famine, states that 8,000 Pimas and force. When the Don left Colon, June
destroyed. A miner who was with an equal munner of Papagoes are in 16, General Parras was 15 miles from business section of the village of Mid state has ever had, and the youngest
Lewis claims that Lewis liecaine in
great distress. Congress has appropri Panama, with 1,600 well-armed infan dleton. eight miles west of here, was governor in the United States, issued a
censed because the pine needles hurt
ated $33,000 for the relief of the In try and 500 cavalry. It was believed wiped out by fire tonight. The insur statement tonight, formally announc
his feet and set fire to them, causing dians and iations will soon be distri that General Campos would be com ance loss is $75,000 to $100,000, with ing his candidacy for the Democratio
the most disastrous forest fire evel
actual loss much greater
nomination to succeed himself
polled to surrender the citv.
buted.
known in the Southwest
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